Fun Ways to Give Money as a Gift!

The Happy Hubby is actually a graduate himself this year – May 18th my man will be walking across the platform to receive his Masters of Divinity.

Seriously, with all that we have going on right now, he still wrote two 20-page papers dissecting a piece of Scripture – in GREEK, no less – and turned them in on time so that he can get his diploma along with the rest of his class.

I am so proud of him.

So proud that I am trying to come up with a great gift idea to celebrate all that he has accomplished in the last 6 years of seminary.

Who doesn’t like getting cash as a gift?

But stuffing an envelope with a couple of twenties just doesn’t cut it for this Happy Home Fairy.

Here are some Creative Money Gifting Ideas that any Graduate would love…

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I did this fun idea last year for a gal I knew who was graduating from high school.

I love all of these ideas! My stepbrother is in his teenage years and very hard to buy for, so instead of just getting a giftcard I thnk I’m going to do the chocolate box of money for his Christmas present this year! :)

I just gave my wife $50 in her stocking, but i hid it in all the candy. I hid a $20 in an almond hersheys kiss, just folded it up to resemble one, and put the wrapper over it. I cannot wait to see her face, trying to find all of that money!

Thanks for the great ideas! I have two graduations and two teen birthdays. I don’t usually like to give cash, but that’s really the only thing you can do for teens, so these ideas are great and lots of fun!

Love these ideas. The money jar reminds me of the tin can that my mother-in-law gave to Brock on his 16th birthday. She had been putting money in for all the little helper jobs he would do on his visits to her house since he was a toddler. I had no idea she had been doing that. It was a sweet surprise.

I carefully pulled back plastic wrapping on bottom of toilet paper 8-pack. Then I pulled each roll of t.p. out, trying not to make the bottom hole too large or tear. I put money inside each roll, put each roll back in place, and carefully glued and taped package up, so it looked like no one had tampered with with the package. The look on my granddaughters face when she opened the pack of toilet paper was too funny. She loved it, once someone suggested grandma gave her more than toilet paper for her birthday.

My sis used to give a character cookie jar each Christmas to our nephew with a $100 bill inside. He LOVED it and would thank her profusely each year; our sis (his mom) would say, “he doesn’t need another cookie jar, you gave him one last year”! She never knew there was money inside.

When my son was about 12, we decided to give him cash to put toward an item he’d been wanting but I didn’t want to just put cash in a card. So I got numerous bills of different denominations and taped them one after the other to the inside roll or paper toilet paper, then rolled it back up.
The look on his face when he unwrapped a roll of toilet paper only to unroll it to find the cash, was priceless!!

I’ve put money in WIFFLE BALLS before. Kids had fun hitting the ball to try and wear it down. They finally cut it open weeks later. I did the money in hand soap so the kids had to wash before getting to the money. I’ve put it in a 3D MAIZE PUZZLE, once they got the ball from one end to another it opened and released the money.

I am always looking for ways to give cash. For my grandson’s b-day I took an old, old torn Fairy Tale book. At about page 50 I cut a hole through the pages so it would hold 30 one dollar bills. Wrapped the book and when my grandson looked at it he started thumbing through the pages. I told him to look at the picture on page 50, an wahlah! it was a hit.

One year for the grandkids’ Christmas, I gave them each a Christmas tin full of Walnuts and a nutcracker. In some of the walnuts (that I had carefully opened on the seams, stuffed with folded money and glued back shut with Elmer’s glue) was their cash. They all had a blast opening walnuts to find their money

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